Sentences with phrase «civil rights people»

Hi There Artbusinessnews, Speaking of which, I am doing a research project on civil rights people and I got a card with Danny Lyon's name on it.

- when you are spreading lies about the gay community and blocking their civil rights people have the right to point that out to uneducated prejudice bigots like you.

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The administration's directive enraged conservatives who say federal civil rights protections pertains to a person's gender assigned at birth, not someone's changing gender identity.

«We don't want to see property destruction or see people getting hurt,» said Elad Gross, a 29 - year - old St. Louis civil rights attorney, as activists gathered in a park before going to the mall.

In 1939, at a time when Washington's concert halls were still segregated, world - renowned Opera singer Marian Anderson helped advance civil rights when, with the support of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, she performed at the Lincoln Memorial in front of 75,000 people.

We are ordinary people, living our lives, and trying as civil - rights activist Dorothy Cotton said, to «fix what ain't right» in our society.»

Before reporting an incident of sexual harassment to a higher authority, Gillian Thomas, who is a senior staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union Women's Rights Project, says it's always best to speak with the person affected by the incident first.

But in the final scenes it's clear what they are: A sticker from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the influential San Francisco - based civil rights group, and one for TOR, the popular protocol that lets people access the Internet without revealing their location.

After the sweeping Republican election victory on Nov. 9, 2016, transgender people «are concerned for their safety, survival and legal rights in the coming years,» said Chase Strangio, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union who often works on transgender issues.

Advocates have portrayed the District of Columbia measure as a civil rights issue, saying studies have shown that African Americans are disproportionately more likely to be arrested on marijuana charges than are people of other races.

«Visa programs for foreign workers... should be administered in a manner that protects the civil rights of American workers and current lawful residents, and that prioritizes the protection of American workers — our forgotten working people — and the jobs they hold.»

His steady leadership during the challenging times of the civil rights era was transformational for the people he served, in addition to countless others across nations decades later.

Prior to joining Calvert in 2005, Ms. Lasdon served as Deputy Director of Research for People for the American Way Foundation, where she published research on civil rights and civil liberties issues.

The UN Human Rights Committee, which regularly reviews whether states are living up to their obligations under the binding International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, today made more than a dozen recommendations for fundamental changes in Canadian law and policy in respect to the treatment of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.

Surveys during the civil rights era found that many white people supported desegregation privately but opposed it publicly, because they thought all the other white people opposed it.

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In recent weeks, racial justice activists and civil rights groups have noted that gun violence in black communities, rather than inspiring reform legislation or prompting national outcry, is often framed as the result of black people being unable to control themselves.

Any time there is some discussion about «gay rights», some misinformed person always brings up the civil rights movement.

Use the bible for what it was intended, moral stories of how people should act, although current societal norms would certainly preclude stoning and other current justice and civil rights departures from the rigid teachings / interpretations of the bible.

They hated civil rights and could not imagine a world worth living in that treated African - Americans as people.

That's why so many religious people are working so hard to deny gays and lesbians their civil rights that harms them and their families.

it's amazing to me that a group of people that have and still endure such discrimination and oppression can have the audacity to want to limit the civil rights of anyone.

When two people live in a committed relationship for decades and some hospital functionary bars one from visiting the other in the hospital because they can't marry and hence are technically unrelated in the eyes of the law, that is a civil rights issue.

What people who don't believe want is for you to respect their civil and legal rights.

The people who resisted the Civil Rights movement in the south, many of whom used religious arguments, people who classified Blacks as animals, were degraded and debased by their own actions: turning fire hoses on children, setting dogs on peaceful marchers, lynching, firebombing churches...

Black people want civil right, but they do nt want gays to be involved with «MLK» day???? WTH is that about!

to President Obama's second inaugural, in which he cast the holy places of women's rights, civil rights, and gay rights as the postmodern Bethlehem («We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths — that all of us are created equal — is the star that guides us still; just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall»).

I got my civil rights so screw people who don't have equal rights under the law.

tell me, are we denying adulterers or greedy people civil rights?

I think that gay people can have civil unions and still get rights.They don't have to get married to get rights.

Are you equating someone offering a discount on an oil change for spouting off a Bible verse... vs. allowing people who happen to be of the same gender, who love and care for each other and want... and... are deserving of equal civil rights and equal treatment under the law... as = to being the «same thing»...?

The trauma of slavery, the fratricide of the Civil War, the profound legal ramifications of the Reconstruction amendments, the ignoble post-Reconstruction retreat from the moral and practical implications of black citizenship, the collective redemption of the Civil Rights Movement — these have worked to make us Americans the people we are.

«That Sudan continues to prosecute these men, and without even allowing them free access to their legal team, makes a mockery of the judicial process and is a clear violation of fair trial principles, as articulated in Article 7 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights (ACHPR) and Article 14 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), to which Sudan is a party.

Whenever one group of people decides to force their set of values or beliefs on another group, that's civil rights.

Since when has the Catholic church concerned itself with any other civil rights besides the right of people to be deceived by religion?

Trying to ban birth control, teach creationism and denying people their civil rights for example.

The Civil Rights Movement in the United States helped millions of people who had less rights than others and those who where discriminated against because of who they are or what they lookedRights Movement in the United States helped millions of people who had less rights than others and those who where discriminated against because of who they are or what they lookedrights than others and those who where discriminated against because of who they are or what they looked like.

Leaders in the civil rights organizations as well as in the halls of Congress remain wedded to a conception of the black condition and to a method of appealing to the rest of the polity that undermine the dignity of our people.

People can change their mind, which is why now African Americans have their civil rights and are not segregated anymore, and women have their civil right too.

By attempting to subvert our civil rights, you religious people show us that you can not be trusted with secular responsibilities.

denying people their civil rights is called bigotry.

He spoke of the civil rights of all people, and, yes, even the white people.

Editorializing on the transgender phenomenon, the New York Times used anecdotal testimonials to present sex - change surgery as the restoration of a civil right to people long deprived of their authentic selves.

In addition to civil rights for people of color, women and LGBT, there has been an expansion of religious liberty for minority sects, enforcement of viewpoint neutrality with respect to access to various public and non-public forums (e.g. religious student groups must be granted equal access to school facilities as their secular counterparts, etc) greater protections against age and disability discrimination, and recognition of habeas corpus rights even for enemy combatants.

Now think back on what it took for African Americans and women to get their civil rights, it took good people fighting the prejudice and bigotry of those brainwashed by ancient beliefs.

I'm certain that had he lived to see a gay rights movement he would have been marching right alongside them as he did for minorities, the poor and oppressed, because it would have been a civil rights matter for him; a matter of justice for, as he said, ALL of God's people.

White people also participated in the civil right movemen t as well.

Again and again, Charles hammered home the point that it is not necessary to oppose gay civil rights on Christian principle; but it is necessary to show love and acceptance, because the church has the responsibility of welcoming and sharing the good news of Jesus Christ with all people.

While glad to see the change of attitude among conservative Christians with respect to gay civil rights and acceptance of gays as human beings, some persons were troubled over other aspects of the issue.

Were religious people promoting peace when they voted down gay marriage (a civil rights issue, opponents of which will be viewed in the same light as the opponents against civil rights in the 50s and 60s) You are just so comfortable in the majority, you can't see the prejudice and bias you put on people that aren't like you.